McGeechan plots to hit US with dash of speed

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SCOTLAND have made nine changes, and there would have been ten if Andy Mower had not wrecked his knee, in the team announced early this morning to play the United States on Monday. Paradoxically, however, it is not a sign of Ian McGeechan, the Scotland head coach, losing his nerve in the aftermath of the poor performance against Japan It is the absolute reverse.

In the run-up to the Japan game, McGeechan had confided that his plan was to put in the big players in order to intimidate the opposition physically, and that he would be fielding a much more